Merit Box Distribution 2006

The Merit Box is a wonderful tool – it helps us develop our practice of generosity and it helps Lama Zopa Rinpoche to fund valuable projects, thereby helping to fulfill Rinpoche’s amazing vision – so it is a great cause for rejoicing on many levels!

The Merit Box collection for 2006 was a great success. We now have participants working through sixty centers around the world.

Our goal this year is to involve many more FPMT centers and study groups in this exciting project.

Thank you so much to all of you who participated and to the Merit Box Coordinators who have worked so hard to make this a success.

Recent quote:

The merit box is an easy simple way to benefit so many of Rinpoche’s projects. It’s something that everyone can do, because let’s face it we all have a little spare change!

–Michelle Stewart, Director, Tse Chen Ling

Your Generosity Distributed

When we practice generosity, we are applying the exact antidote to attachment.

–Lama Zopa Rinpoche

The amount collected for 2006 from Merit Boxes around the world amounted to US$68,000.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is very pleased and has now distributed the entire amount to the following projects and centers:

Each one of us is responsible for all other living beings’ happiness besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in the world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.